Duran Lantink reimagines the rebellious spirit of Jean Paul Gaultier through surreal silhouettes, historic glamour, and futuristic couture.
Jean Paul
Gaultier
Fall 2026 Couture
Duran Lantink takes the Gaultier codes into a surreal new dimension of anatomy, technology, history, and couture.
Marie Antoinette meets futurism as Duran Lantink makes his couture debut for one of fashion’s most rebellious houses.
W hat happens when one of fashion’s most rebellious houses gives a new designer permission to completely rethink the body?
For Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2026 Couture, Duran Lantink answered with something wonderfully strange: a collection where historical couture, futuristic technology, exaggerated anatomy, and the unmistakable irreverence of Gaultier collide.
Presented in Paris on July 8, 2026, the collection marked Lantink’s first haute couture collection for Jean Paul Gaultier. Rather than simply recreating the house’s greatest hits, he treated its history as material to be dismantled, stretched, distorted, and rebuilt. View the Vogue runway coverage.
Couture
Without Rules
Lantink imagined a world where traditional couture techniques could meet new technologies and unfamiliar forms.
Versailles Goes Futuristic
Lantink began thinking about Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette and how those historical references could collide with futurism. The result is a collection that feels simultaneously regal and alien. Read the Vogue collection review.
Versailles-inspired brocades, corsetry, crinolines, ribbons, and ornate references to eighteenth-century France are transformed rather than simply reproduced.
The historical references give the collection its grandeur. The technology gives it its strange new body.
Fashion
Reconstructs the Body
Instead of simply dressing the body, Lantink asks what happens when clothing changes the way we perceive it.
The New Anatomy
One of the collection’s most radical ideas was the use of digitally created structures to transform the silhouette.
Lantink 3D-scanned the torso of model Leon Dame and created a distorted, internally corseted body structure that appeared almost like a futuristic carapace. See the runway on Vogue.
The result is fashion that begins to behave like sculpture.
The Gaultier DNA
Even while pushing the house forward, Lantink made sure the collection remained unmistakably Gaultier.
Corsets, tailored jackets, Aran-inspired knitwear, tulle skirts, couture construction, and the legendary cone-bra vocabulary were reinterpreted through his own disruptive design language.
Some references were recognizable immediately. Others seemed to have been taken apart and put back together incorrectly on purpose.
And that is precisely where the collection becomes interesting.
The Cone
Gets Rebuilt
The famous Gaultier cone-bra idea was transformed into sculptural elements that could travel across the body, turning one of the house’s most recognizable signatures into something almost architectural.
A Conversation With the Archive
Lantink looked directly into the Gaultier archives, using familiar house references as raw material for something new.
The collection makes clear that it isn’t an attempt to escape Gaultier’s history. It is an attempt to make that history move again.
Jean Paul Gaultier
Fall 2026 Couture
Explore the complete runway collection and individual looks.
Couture in Motion
A closer look at Duran Lantink’s first Haute Couture collection for Jean Paul Gaultier.
The Verdict
Duran Lantink’s first couture collection for Jean Paul Gaultier does not attempt to behave.
It bends the body, disrupts proportion, plays with history, embraces technology, and turns couture into a laboratory for strange and beautiful ideas.
Most importantly, it understands something essential about Gaultier: couture was never supposed to be boring.
